Claire Bellerjeau, Tiffany Yecke Brooks

Remember Liss (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Remember Liss is a non-fiction book for students that tells the remarkable true story of an enslaved Black woman in 18th century New York whose life sheds light on the experiences of people of color in New York from the colonial period into the early republic.

By the time Elizabeth, known as "Liss," was born into the household of the moderately wealthy Townsend family in the early 1760s, slavery had already been established in New York for over a century-and would persist under legal protection for almost seventy more. Remember Liss follows her long and complex journey towards freedom and examines the laws and customs that kept the institution in place for so long as well as the path to eventually abolishing slavery in the state. Her life reveals the often-overlooked history of slavery in New York and her involvement with Robert Townsend, a spy for George Washington during the Revolutionary War.

Remember Liss allows readers a chance to explore the world of New York-and New York's place in the world-during the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries. Prominent figures cross her path such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Jupiter Hammon, Benedict Arnold, John André and John Adams; and stories from America's founding are re-examined, including the Culper Spy Ring, the Boston Massacre, the Sons of Liberty, the Battle of Long Island, and the Benedict Arnold treason plot. Remember Liss offers a new perspective to America's founding, from the point of view of an enslaved Black woman seeking personal liberty in a country fighting for its own.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Remember Liss
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798889556183
• Artikelnr.: 69960523

Autorenporträt

Claire Bellerjeau discovered Liss's story through seventeen years of original research. In 2021 she co-authored Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth. In 2022 Bellerjeau co-founded Remember Liss, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to sharing Liss's story with the community. She formerly served as Historian and Director of Education at Liss's birthplace, Raynham Hall Museum in Oyster Bay, New York. She has been researching the Townsend family and those they enslaved for almost two decades, including curating a yearlong exhibit on the Townsend "Slave Bible" in 2005. In 2015, during a research visit to the New York Historical Society, she discovered what may be one of the earliest poems ever written by Jupiter Hammon, America's first published African American writer. She has developed educational programs on the subjects of slavery in New York and the American Revolution on Long Island and shares Liss's story with schools and the community.